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Das Spielwerk und die Prinzessin

Music by Franz Schreker · libretto by Franz Schreker · premiered 1913

Das Spielwerk und die Prinzessin (The Music Box and the Princess) is an opera in two acts by Austrian composer Franz Schreker with a libretto by the composer.

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About the Composer

Franz Schreker (originally Schrecker; 23 March 1878 – 21 March 1934) was an Austrian composer, conductor, librettist, teacher and administrator. Primarily a composer of operas, Schreker developed a style characterized by aesthetic plurality (a mixture of Romanticism, Naturalism, Symbolism, Impressionism, Expressionism and Neue Sachlichkeit), timbral experimentation, strategies of extended tonality and conception of total music theatre into the narrative of 20th-century music.

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